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Why would anyone unaffiliated with NSA be alarmed that its tools had been breached? What legitimacy does it have at this point? Serious question.
by myegorov 9y ago
Why would anyone unaffiliated with NSA be alarmed that its tools had been breached? What legitimacy does it have at this point? Serious question.
- likelynew 9y agoIntelligence sharing..
- prostoalex 9y agoIt's valuable information that can be used to either secure a future favor or serve as a quid pro quo for a previously extended favor.
- threeseed 9y agoIsrael is not unaffiliated with the NSA. They are a trusted ally of the USA and an observer in the Five Eyes alliance.
- pgeorgi 9y agoThe NSA is angry that their toys were lost because of their incompetence of using a tool that was just doing its job (to find malware) on a system that also hosted their secret toys. They're even more angry that they didn't notice themselves so their buddies from Israel had to tell them. _That_ must have burned. Since the cover-up among relevant folks failed, and since Russia is slowly elevated to "not really friendly" status again by the US gov't, there's a great opportunity by the US deep state to send a big f*ck you to Kaspersky for their impertinence of doing their job.
- willstrafach 9y ago> The NSA is angry that their toys were lost because of their incompetence of using a tool that was just doing its job That is not true at all. The software was run on an employee’s home computer, who had illegally brought classified content home.